Work-box.



No. 639,653. Patented m. l9, I899.

E. BENTON.

WORK BOX.

(Application filed Apr. 12, 1899.) (No Model.)

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ATENT Enron.

EMMA BENTON, OF BUTTE, MONTANA.

WORK-BOX.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 639,653, dated December 19, 1899.

Application filed April 12, 1899' Serial NO '7 1 (N 1110de1-3 To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, EMMA BENTON, of B utte, in the county of Silver Bow and State of Montana, have invented a new and Improved W ork-Basket, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of the invention is to provide a new and improved work basket or box designed to hold buttons, spool-thread, scissors, pins, and other articles and arranged to prevent entanglement of the several spools of thread and to allow the user to readily, conveniently, and quickly remove any length of thread from a desired spool.

The invention consists of novel features and parts and combinations of the same, as will be fully described hereinafter, and then pointed out in the claim.

A practical embodiment of my invention is represented in the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both the views.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the improvement with parts in section on the line 1 1 in Fig. 2, and Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same.

The improved work-basket is preferably made of sheet metal, but other suitable material may be employed, and the basket is provided with a central compartment A for holding buttons and other articles. On the sides of said central compartment are arranged outWardly-overhanging spool-holders B, having their bottoms B made semicircular to form bearings for spools 0, containing the thread, each holder being designed to contain but a single spool. The lower ends of the bottoms B of the several holders are arranged above the bottom of the central compartment A, thus leaving a space beneath the holders. Each bottom B is formed near its middle and at the lowest point with an aperture 13 for the passage of the thread 0 from the spool-holder, so that the thread depends from the correspondingspool-holderinto the aforesaid space beneath the same, thus to be within convenient reach of the operator, as may readily be understood by reference to Fig. 1.

When it is desired to make use of a desired thread, the operator simply takes hold of the lower projecting end of the thread and pulls thereon to cause the spool to revolve on the bottom of the corresponding holder until the desired length of thread is unwound. The operator can now out oif the thread, leaving a short piece dangling from the bottom of the spool-holder.

Itis to be understood that each spool-holder B preferably contains a spool having a different kind of thread, and the several holders are preferably of different sizes to permit of accommodating spools of different sizes.

The central compartmentA is also provided at one corner and near the upper end thereof with an inclined shelf D for supporting pins and other small articles, and a handle E, preferably formed of two crossed bands secured at their ends to the corner spool-holders, serves to conveniently move the work-basket about from one place to another. On the under side of the handle E, preferably at the intersection of the two bands, are secured hooks F for supporting scissors or other tools, which can be conveniently removed at any time for immediate use.

By constructing the handle in the manner described the operator has convenient access from any side of the box to the compartment A and to the shelf D to easily get at the articles supported on the shelf or contained in the central compartment.

Having thus fully described my invention,

I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters the spools.

- EMMA BENTON. Witnesses:

O. L. WOOD,

G. A. MCFARLANE. 

